Ubisoft has recently announced officially an “early 2009″ date for the Wii release of Tenchu 4, the newest chapter in the franchise, a sometimes great / sometimes awful world of video game ninjaing. It is notably being developed by the team that made the original title such a strong game.

The true question is whether the control scheme presented in the game will be an innovative use of the Wii control scheme or yet another gimmicky game with simple motion control. Given the developer I am reasonably confident it will be the former, but time will tell. For Nintendo, this certainly helps the “lack of hardcore games” image, if only by a bit.